Legit.Show measured Scalar's Security frame at 25/100. No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS. Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.

How does Legit.Show measure Scalar?

Legit.Show scores seven frames — Performance, Accessibility, Security, Privacy, Reliability, Standards and Discoverability — deterministically from the public surface (URL, HTTP headers, real Lighthouse), with no LLM in the scoring path. See legit.show/methodology.

Frameworks & Starter Kits

Scalar

Last updated 2026-09-24 · benchmark measured 2026-09-24 — deterministic & reproducible

Scalar is a self-hosted Python web application foundation sold as a one-time source download.

69/100

7/7 frames

Top 76% of 14,138 measured

Legit Benchmark — the simple average of 7 measured frames. Frames we could not measure are left out of the average, never counted as zero. Every frame is shown below with its evidence.

Checked 2026-09-24 · scores move as sites change

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Legit.Show scored Scalar 69/100 on 2026-09-24, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/getscalar-dev/2026-09-24

Is Scalar production-ready?

Legit.Show scores Scalar 69 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Scalar (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Reliability; its weakest is Discoverability. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

Performance — 80/100
Accessibility — 90/100
Security — 25/100
How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
Privacy — 75/100
How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
Reliability — 100/100
Standards — 100/100
Discoverability — 15/100

What we measured

No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS.
Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
Real Lighthouse performance run — 228 ms to first byte.
Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
2 of 2 sampled routes reachable.
Has a reachable privacy policy.
Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.

Who it's for

Developers · Startups · Solo builders · Small teams · AI-assisted developers

Pricing

Free forever (core app), Pro $50 one-time, Enterprise $100 one-time

Sources and updates

Description: Taken from getscalar.dev's own website on 2026-09-24.
Operator: Scalar, as named in getscalar.dev's terms, privacy page or footer.
Benchmark: Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-09-24.

Put together from public information, without Scalar's involvement. If anything here is wrong, tell us and a person will check it.

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